GEORGE - Soprano Sonya Yoncheva's New Album Also Featuring Pianist Olga Zado And Mezzo-Soprano Marina Viotti

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Artist:
Sonya Yoncheva
Olga Zado
Marina Viotti

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
49:28

Record Label:
Naive

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
January 24, 2025




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Product Description: Sonya Yoncheva has long been fascinated by George Sand. Writer, dramaturg, and literary critic, a journalist and an intellectual, the lover of Alfred de Musset and then of Frederic Chopin as well as being a friend of Franz Liszt, Pauline Viardot and Marie Dorval, and beyond her remarkable destiny as a woman blessed with the "glorious and complete independence" which in her age was reserved solely for men, Sand embodies the entire spirit, the essence even, of the 19th century. It is in the first place her boldness, approaching the intrepid, which appeals to the Bulgarian soprano. Sand showed daring for all of her life, and what a fount of inspiration her writings are, on all kinds of topics. Whether political, social, cultural, artistic, how pertinent they are, and how their vibrant, trenchant language dazzles! George Sand loved the arts unconditionally. And so this programme opens the doors to us, revealing her artistic universe and bringing her passions to life. Her house, her kitchen, her salon stir into action again, in this soiree in the company of her friends, these artists to whom she was so close and who, respectfully and with tender affection, listened to each other, conversed, laughed, and celebrated in music and poetry. Here, George Sand do not sing, nor do she play an instrument. So Sonya Yoncheva portrays her by reading some of her words. They bear witness to the sparkling, glittering nature of the "Lady of Nohant".What surprises there are throughout this recital! If the passionate urges of Alfred de Musset, fervent or, as so often, disappointed, nourish this journey equally, so the sumptuous Nuit de decembre by Ruggero Leoncavallo, the more hedonistic examples of Pauline Viardot, these two Mazurkas by Chopin transformed into melodies with Louis Pomey's slightly schoolboyish texts, or more obscurely the "medley" of Les Bohemiennes, marrying diverse motifs, of Brahms's Hungarian Dances, also delight heart and mind - a beautiful homage to the innate music that derives from folk and popular traditions, something that George Sands so frequently and tenderly extolled.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Casta Diva in E major in E Major Olga Zado (03:17)

2 . Echo de "Casta diva" Sonya Yoncheva & Olga Zado (01:36)

3 . Nuit de décembre Sonya Yoncheva & Olga Zado (03:01)

4 . Chanson espagnole, "Les filles de Cadix" Sonya Yoncheva & Olga Zado (03:37)

5 . 3 .Nocturnes, Op. 9: No. 2 .in E-Flat Major, Andante Olga Zado (04:18)

6 . Echo du Nocturne précédent Olga Zado & Sonya Yoncheva (02:01)

7 . Fantasio, Act I Scene 5: No. 2, Ballade, "Voyez dans la nuit brune" (Fantasio) Sonya Yoncheva & Olga Zado (02:47)

8 . 6 .Mélodies: No. 5, Madrid, VWV 1136 . Sonya Yoncheva & Olga Zado (02:51)

9 . 6 .Morceaux, VWV 3003: No. 1 .in A Major, Romance Olga Zado & Adam Taubitz (03:03)

10 . Lettre à Marie Dorval Sonya Yoncheva (01:03)

11 . Ninon Sonya Yoncheva & Olga Zado (04:31)

12 . 12 .Mazourkes de Frédéric Chopin: No. 8, Faible cœur !, VWV 4028 . Sonya Yoncheva & Olga Zado (04:42)

13 . 12 .Mazourkes de Frédéric Chopin: No. 6, Séparation, VWV 4022 . Sonya Yoncheva, Marina Viotti & Olga Zado (02:12)

14 . 3 .Liebesträume, S. 541: No. 3 .in A-Flat Major, "O lieb so lang du lieben kannst" Olga Zado (04:48)

15 . Echo to Liebestraum S. 541: No. 3 .in A-Flat Major, "O lieb so lang du lieben kannst" Sonya Yoncheva & Olga Zado (01:36)

16 .Les Bohémiennes. Duo d'après les Danses Hongroises de Brahms Sonya Yoncheva, Marina Viotti & Olga Zado (04:12)

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